ATI Multimedia Center? found herein is provided as an UPDATE to previous versions included on original installation CDs for supported products. Includes Windows Media Encoder 9, DAO/MDAC, and TitanTV components for Multimedia Cente

It seems that there are a few dynamic shadow rendering issues with the games BattleField 2 v1.12 and Need for Speed: Most Wanted. It is not an isolated incident as we have noticed that many users are complaining about these issues in various forums around the world.

The French site ATi-Power inform us that ATI could include the MMC V9.12 in the bundle of next AIW like the AIW 2006 based on X1300's VPU. This version supports H.264 decoding for X1000 series and DVB-T tuner for french users. This version supports H.264 decoding for X1000 series and DVB-T tuner for french users. A little screen of the 9.12 version is on their site : Here

It's almost here, CableCard and HDTV support in Windows Vista made possible by ATI. We got a demo of ATI's brand new HDTV tuner that will ship when Vista does, and it's exactly what Microsoft needs for users to take Vista's media center capabilities seriously.

Anandtech

ATI released a X1800XT bios which set the core to 700 from 625Mhz and the memory to 800Mhz from 750Mhz. It was said that the raise should generally work on all X1800XT cards.

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ATi is one of the largest chip manufacturers in the world, but despite its wide range of products and the many markets it is active in, we haven't seen any particular interest in Israel from ATi - that is, until now. Recently, three senior ATi officials came to Israel for a brief visit, during which they held a press conference and presented the company's agenda for the future home computing market.

A question that has been asked fairly frequently is whether ATI?s All-In-Wonder multimedia combination boards, such as the recently announced All-In-Wonder X1800 XL, will work in ATI?s dual board "Crossfire" solution.

Beyond3D

As ATI confirmed the X1300 series videocards would be able to work in Crossfire without the need of a master card. You need to have a Crossfire-ready motherboard and two X1300 videocards, aside from that Catalyst 5.12 drivers are needed, because they are the first version that comes X1300 Crossfire support. We've build a Crossfire system with two Sapphire X1300 videocards and it really workd. More about X1300 Crossfire and Catalyst 5.12

ToyShop : Toyshop demonstrates what is possible through the power of Radeon® X1800 graphics. This detailed environment includes complex rain and water effects, physical simulation on the GPU, detailed brickwork and cobblestones and a realistic dynamic lighting environment ? all of which are designed to showcase the power of ATI?s SM3.0 graphics .

A new ATI advisory is out, and it looks like ATI fans are in for an interesting surprise; X1300 and X1600 won't need a master card. We confirmed this with a few AIBs over the last few hours, but it appears that ATI will release a new driver soon that enables Crossfire over the PCIe bus on Radeon X1300 and X1600 video cards - eliminating the need for dedicated master cards.

AnandTech

Back when we reviewed the new high-end X1800 cards from ATI, we made particular note of ATI's investment in making its new chip architecture shine in GPGPU (general-purpose computation on GPU) applications. That is, using the power of the graphics chip for compute-intensive tasks other than graphics.

Doom3 and nVidia > Doom3 and ATI ? Think again, ATI has a 'fix' ready for rollout in Catalyst 5.11 which improves performance by up to 35% at high AA modes. HEXUS benched the X1800XT and 7800GTX and ATI has for the first time in history overtaken nVidia's offering in the well-known app.

According to ATI?s software product manager Terry Makedon, the company will release CATALYST drivers that take full advantage of microprocessors with two processing engines in about two or three months from now. Given that processors with two cores typically run at lower clock-speeds compared to chips with one core, whereas gaming applications typically do not benefit from the number of cores per processors, a performance boost is likely to allow owners of modern computers to enjoy higher speeds in games.

X-Bit Labs

ToyShop : Toyshop demonstrates what is possible through the power of Radeon® X1800 graphics. This detailed environment includes complex rain and water effects, physical simulation on the GPU, detailed brickwork and cobblestones and a realistic dynamic lighting environment ? all of which are designed to showcase the power of ATI?s SM3.0 graphics .

In its latest propaganda efforts, ATI has tried promoting the Fear demo as a game that uses Shader Model 3.0. Here's a peek at the chart from the "reviewers guide" they sent out to sites reviewing the cards. The problem is, however, that FEAR is not a game that uses SM3.0.

GDHardware

This question came up in the late stages of writing my Radeon X1000 series review, and I just got confirmation from ATI yesterday. Turns out that the vertex shaders in the Radeon X1000 series GPUs don't support a notable Shader Model 3.0 feature: vertex texture fetch.

ATI silently lowered its warranty from three years down to a single year on the majority of their desktop graphics cards, which has created some upset and confused consumers. We talk with ATI on the changes and examine how they will impact consumers.

Legit Reviews

Read an interview with ATI?s President and CEO, Dave Orton, after the IDF Fall 2005 event in San Francisco. He answered some questions concerning R5xx-product family, CrossFire technology, questions about moving to 90nm process technology and developments in handheld graphics technology.

HW Spirit

Undoubtedly, NVIDIA has remedied all product launch and availability issues with its GeForce 7 series of graphics cards. First it was the 7800GTX and now the 7800GT, NVIDIA managed to deliver both cards right when it made the announcement. Not only that, but the prices from certain vendors are dropping to fairly desirable levels pretty rapidly. Needless to say, the entire community is waiting for a rebuttal from ATI and its R520 core.

On Thursday, July 28th, ATI held a seminar in Helsinki, Finland to talk about ATI's multi-GPU CrossFire solution, with Richard Huddy on hand to give a presentation about the technology. Forum member Mendel was on-hand to view the show, and grabbed a few images of the presentation. It's nothing new information-wise, but may be of interest to any of you who want to see how ATI is promoting this new technology.

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